Today, I Feel... Daily Emotions Activity

Get your kids talking about their emotions and learning to recognize facial expressions with this free printable daily check-in activity, "Today, I feel...".

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I recommend that you laminate this activity and use velcro dots for the children's faces. The squares on the right side of the page can be used to store the faces when they are not on the child's body.

When starting this activity, talk about different feelings that you can have and let your child try to name the feelings that each face is expressing.

For daily use, the laminated mat can be hung on a wall and children can change the facial expression as their own mood changes.

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Animal Emotions Clip Cards

These fun clip cards will get your toddlers and preschoolers learning about emotions and animals while also building fine motor skills!

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This set of FREE printable clip cards feature 7 adorable animals with 7 different facial expressions to represent feelings. Toddlers and preschoolers will have a blast matching the emotions on the animal faces!

Materials Needed:

• Printer
• Paper or Cardstock
• Laminator (optional)
• Clips (clothespins)

Instructions:
Print out the cards on regular paper if you are laminating, or on cardstock paper if you aren't laminating, in order for the cards to be more durable. Cut out the cards. Give your students or children clothespins to clip the matching emotion at the bottom of each card.

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Weather Emotions Clip Cards

These fun clip cards will get your toddlers and preschoolers learning about emotions and the weather while also building fine motor skills!

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This set of FREE printable clip cards feature 6 cute weather emojis with 8 different facial expressions to represent feelings. Toddlers and preschoolers will have a blast matching the emotions on the weather faces!

Materials Needed:

• Printer
• Paper or Cardstock
• Laminator (optional)
• Clips (clothespins)

Instructions:
Print out the cards on regular paper if you are laminating, or on cardstock paper if you aren't laminating, in order for the cards to be more durable. Cut out the cards. Give your students or children clothespins to clip the matching emotion at the bottom of each card.

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Coping Skills Clip Wheels

Need a fun way to help children understand and deal with their emotions? Particularly anger management? Kids don’t always know how to deal with these different emotions, this is why they will often express emotions in the wrong manner such as physical violence, shouting or even bullying. Help kids develop their social skills and deal with their emotions with this fun coping skills clip wheel.

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Materials Needed:

• Printer
• Paper or Cardstock
• Laminator (optional)
• Clips (clothespins)

There are two coping skills clip wheels. Choose to print both or only one on large A4 or A3 landscape paper. Laminate the wheels and cut them out. Place them at a ‘time out’ place dedicated to quiet time in your classroom along with some colored pegs or clothespins.

Coping Skills for Kids – Social Skills

Students will learn about 20 coping skills they can use when they are experiencing big emotions. This is a great way to introduce kids to ‘big emotions’. And why we experience them and hence normalizing these emotions so that kids feel ok about experiencing them. Kids often retaliate if they are shown that expressing anger will result in punishment.

This is a great way to teach social skills. The way I use these wheels is when a child acts out, I will ask them to tell me how they feel and why they feel this. Then I would encourage the child to go and find the coping skills wheel and read a task you want to do right now to cope. Then use a peg to clip it. While they are in the time out zone actually doing this task, I will check on them in a few minutes to be sure they are calm. This usually works.

There are 20 coping skills they can choose from, of course you could use one at a time or both for more options.

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Yara from Sea of Knowledge
Founder of Sea of Knowledge, an ESL teacher with a passion for making learning fun and engaging. She loves creating fun activities that children and learners can benefit from. You can also find me on: Facebook and Pinterest.

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